Mohammad Husni Thamrin

Mohammad Husni Thamrin (16 February 1894-11 January 1941) was an Indonesian independence activist who died in prison in 1941 for allegedly spying in the Dutch East Indies for Japan.

Biography
Mohammad Husni Thamrin was born on 16 February 1894 in Weltevreden, Batavia, Dutch East Indies (present-day Sawah Besar, Indonesia), the son of an English businessman who became a district head under Johan Cornelius van der Wijck. In 1919, Thamrin was elected to the Batavia City Council and was elected to the Volksraad in 1927, and he became a nationalist, believing that independence could be achieved through cooperation with the Dutch government. He was kept under surveillance by the Dutch government for proposing that the Dutch name for its colonies, "Nederlands Indie", be changed to "Indonesia" and that the group "Inlander"'s name be changed to "Indonesians", and in May 1939 he cofounded the Indonesian Political Federation to fight fascism. In 1941, he was imprisoned on charges of aiding advancing Imperial Japanese Army forces in Southeast Asia, and he died of illness on 11 January 1941. MH Thamrin Street in Jakarta is named for him, and he was declared a "National Hero".